Cover for jars or other vessels.



No. 761,652. y PATBNTED JUNE 7, 1904.

-J. BREN ZINGER. COVER FOR JARS-0R OTHER VESSELS.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 6, 1903.

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Patented June '7, 19061.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JULIUS BRENZINGER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO THE MAX AMS MACHINE COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

I COVER FOR JARS OR OTHER VESSELS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Iatent No. 761,652, dated June '7, 1904.

Application filed November 6, 1903. Serial No. 180,006. (No model.)

provements in Covers for Jars or Other'Ves scls, of which the following is a specification. This invention relates to a cover for ars and other receptacles which forms a tight joint, is

not liable to break the glass while being applied, and which may be readily opened.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of a jar provided with my improved cover. Fig. 2 is a vertical section through the cover before the band isupset; Fig. 3, a similar section with the band upset; Fig. I, a detail cross-section through part of the cover.

The letter (t represents an annular resilient band having disconnected overlapping ends, the outer one of which is provided with afinger-piece a. The lower edge of the band is turned inward to form a flange (0 while its upper edge is unbent until the band has been applied to the jar, Fig. 2. The mouth' of the fragile jar A is closed by a cap or disk I), between which and the jar a flexible gasket or cushion 0 is interposed. The cap 5 is provided on its upper side and near its circumference with an annular groove 6.

In use-the gasket 0 and cap 6 are placed in position, and then the flanged band a is sprung around the bottle-head A, so as to embrace the latter together with the gasket and cap. As the ends of the band are disconnected this operation can be readily performed. When the band has thus been fitted in position, its lower flange a will engage the lower shoulder A of the bottle-head, while its upper edge will project beyond the cap. 6, Fig. 2. This upper edge is now turned inward and downward by spinning until the flange a thus formed enters the annular groove I) of cap 6, and thus forms an air-tight joint between bottle and cap, Figs. 3 and 4:. During this operation the spinning-rollers will 'act against a resilient bodyviz., the cushioned cap Z)and not against the jar directly. In this way breakage will be prevented, which is very liable to occur when the pressure of the rollers is transmitteddirectly to the glass. To open the cover, the band a is grasped by its finger-piece a and uncoiled,-when the flange (1, will be withdrawn from the groove of the cap, and the parts will thus become readily disconnected.

What I claim is The method of closing a jar which consists in placing upon the jar-head, aflexible gasket and a superposed yieldingly-stipported cap,- surrounding the jar-head, gasket and cap by a flexible band having a lower flange, and upsetting'the upper flange of the band against the yieldingly-supported cap,'substantially as described.

Signed by me at New York city, (Manhattan,) New York, this 5th day of November,

JULIUS BREN ZIN GER.

Witnesses:

WM. SoHULz,

FRANK v. BRIESEN. 

